"A quick translation of the performance principle would cast it as the way in which a repressive social order is set in place by limiting the forms and quantity of pleasure that the human is allowed. The performance principle is the way in which the dynamism between the pleasure principle and the reality principle are ordered." - Muñoz, "Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity", p. 134 

"Men do not lead their own lives but perform pre-established functions. While they work, they do not fulfill their own needs and faculties but live in alienation." - Marcuse, "Eros and Civilization", p. 45 

"Queerness, as I am describing it here, is more than just sexuality. It is this great refusal of a performance principle that allows the human to feel and know not only our work and our pleasure but also our selves and others." 
- Muñoz, "Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity", p. 135
credits
released March 14, 2019 

written, recorded, produced, and mixed by Sparkle Motion 
recorded at home and at Studio G Brooklyn 
mixing assistance: Mark Schwartz 
mastering: Matt Labozza 
cover art: Sparkle Motion

05- Meshes Of The Afternoon

Sparkle Motion is the musical endeavor of Conner Chase. Founded in 2013 and currently based out of Brooklyn, New York, Sparkle Motion creates a hypnotic atmosphere of dark and frenetic dance by drawing on the production styles of eighties minimalist synth music and the hallucinatory neon of a gay nightclub. The forthcoming album, Performance Principle, celebrates the radical potential of queer performativity against the quotidian vulgarity of heterosexual society across ten tracks, sequined and infectious.

05- Meshes Of The Afternoon

Sparkle Motion (Conner)